After Marguerite destroyed all the clones she had made, she started to treat Francine like an only child. Francine could get away with anything like breaking stuff, back talking and other disruptive stuff. Francine was actually a good kid. Some of Francine’s talents include: singing, dancing, drawing, writing creative stories, and she could double dutch. In 1952 on Francine’s tenth birthday, her birth parents, Fred and Feonia came to see her.
Also, Rex and Rosemary constantly throw their kids into situations that most average children could never handle. Such as forcing them to live in “cat houses” and constantly packing up in the middle of the night and moving. During this part of the book I begin to feel for Jeanette, because I was given the luxury of inflatable water wings and she is forced to drown to learn to swim. Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, wrote, “Mom frowned at me, ‘you’d be destroying what makes it special.’ She said, ‘it’s the Joshua trees struggle that gives it its beauty’” (38). I enjoy the mother’s outlook of the Joshua tree in this quote, it’s very positive, and reminded me of someone I know.
The date was December 15th, 1994 Mr. and Mrs. Johnson welcomes their new baby girl into the world in Seattle, Washington. They decided on the name Julia May Johnson after Mr. Johnson’s mother. Their little princess has blue crystal eyes with light blonde hair with the cutest button nose and tiny fingers and toes. After five years went by her mother got very sick with breast cancer and passed on March 4th, 1999. Julia’s father took his wife’s death extremely hard and was really never around anymore, even though Julia lived with her father most of the time she was with her sitter Becky.
Anita de la Torre, a twelve year old that looks forward to playing with friends everyday, is faced with challenges that not the everyday twelve year old; this has made Anita de la Torre into the young lady by the end of the novel. Anita's nickname is Cotorrito, which in English stands for parrot. Anita constantly asks so many questions to her parents that the mother and father finally got fed up and gave Anita a nick name to best suit the questions constantly asked. Anita's first challenge was the disappearance of Tio Toni. Hearing from others that Anita's uncle is hiding because Tio Toni did horrible things was really hard for Anita to understand.
Assignment 1: Character In Maya Angelou’s autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, the readers get to know the protagonist lacks self confidence; however, she is an imaginative and courageous black girl when she is young. First, she lacks self-confidence. On Easter morning, she realizes that her Easter dress is only a white woman’s throwaway, which “[makes her] skin look dirty like mud, and everyone in church [is] looking at [her] skinny legs”. She feels like a second class person. When she moves to St. Louis and sees her mother for the first time, she is struck by her mother’s beauty.
Not My FRIEND The piece titled “Where are you going, Where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of a fifteen year old girl named Connie on her summer break. Connie lives with her father, mother and her older sister June. “She had a quick nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors or checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was all right” (225). Her mother with age had lost her looks, She noticed Connie’s habit and scolded her for it. She picked on Connie for being pretty, “what the hell stinks?
Dear Diary, Lets Change The Past MikelWJ’s “Dear Diary” so accurately outlines how the effects of our teenage years forever haunt us in adulthood. “Dear Diary” starts out with a 14 year old girl writing in her diary about her inner most thoughts. She explains how she hasn’t eaten all day because she’s trying to lose weight and how she throws up after every meal she eats. She talks about how the girls in the magazines have perfect bodies and such amazing skin and how they make her feel. The chorus outlines how she feels abused by the world.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings In Maya Angelou’s autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, we read about Maya’s struggle with her feelings about not having her parents around to help her through the racism of her time. Though Maya had a rough upbringing, the hard times of her childhood help shape her into the bright, strong, and independent woman she is today. Maya, or commonly known as Ritie, was raised with no parents. Ritie was content with living with her “momma” until the “terrible Christmas.” RItie was confident that her parents were dead, even though people told her that they were in California eating all the oranges they could. By receiving these gifts Ritie felt, “rudely awakened.” Though they don’t want to this made Ritie and Bailey think, “What did we do so wrong?” They Know that they did nothing wrong, but they couldnt help pondering the question.
The ending was extended to show that the children felt sorry for what they have done to the lead character named Margot. Characters of All Summer in a Day Margot – Margot is a little, sickly girl who used to live in Ohio. She is the only child on Venus who can remember how the Earth and the Sun looked like. A "very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years," Margot was the subject of bullying among her classmates. They stuffed Margot inside the closet so she could not see the sun after a prediction came that it would appear.
My Mother and her Sister “My Mother and her Sister” is written by Jane Rogers I 1996. It is a shot story about the relationship between the narrator, her mother and her aunt Lucy. The narrator is a young woman named Dorothy, who tells about her childhood and her mothers parenting skills compared to her aunt. When Dorothy was a child, she was living alone with her mother and her brother Tim. Dorothy and her mother had a great relationship, they where always making fun of aunt Lucy and how she was the ideal mother and wife.